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Show against the sovi;-t pvt:rmu it in Fe-o-One art seems to standi out with reasonable dofiniiene-s, the armies of Kolci.ak and Dcnikine and otiier anti-Bolshevist leaders still are far from their goal. Another ract is that von W Ooltz has a larU' and ci-feetivo ci-feetivo German teroe withm strikin? distance, while the Lilian are apparently unablo or unwilling to reinforce their nationals in Rusjian territory. German arms may drive the Bolshevism Bolshe-vism oi: t of Petrograd and out of power, lint is Russia to ho German after it ceases to be soviet? MANY RUMORS AFLOAT. The report, apparently not without substantial basis, that tho German army is about to be employed against the Russian Bolshevists with tho tacit encouragement, en-couragement, if not actual support, of (he entente allies, discloses one of the most remarkable of post-war developments. develop-ments. Every strictly allied effort to encompass the overthrow of the Trotz-ky-Lenino combination now in control in Petrograd has failed. If tho Paris ' report is to be accepted as trustworthy the Germans now slep into the breach with, an offer to accomplish what tho allies failed to bring about. Cable dispatches indicate that tho offer of-fer of tho Teutons has been accepted, or at least an understanding has been reached by which their preparations for an attack on the Russian capital is not to bo seriously opposed. The matter savors strongly of an implied alliance with the armed forces with which tho allied powers rv.'ceutly were warring. It is, in effect, a counter-revolutionary offensive of-fensive in which the Germans are to save the situation. Mut once having re-ached Petrograd and overcome the Bolshevists, will the Teuton then retire? Is the suppression t f Bolshevism the object of the German militarv command, or behind this military mili-tary movement does there lie tho hope and uxuei't'iticn of Ihc extension of t.crmfii 'uI'Ilviicc and frontiers on the I; is not impossible lhat Ger-ri;a,ic, Ger-ri;a,ic, thwarted in the west, now turns l ti.e ea'-.t, canyiug the flag of the Tcut.'.ii i:'-0 Russia. 'I !".! ili'pat 'hf- aro so contradictory in character that it is difficult to discern dis-cern chvirly the march of events in tho y,all!i cf the, groups of moderates |